Krupp Mail Order began as a modest backroom
operation in Krupp's Strickly Uppa Crust retail store in Milwaukee
(see button #3A). It steadily grew as advertising in Kitchen
Sink's comix line, Rolling Stone,High Times and
other publications expanded the mailing list. KMO was essentially
a "head shop by mail," offering a full line of underground
comix, pipes, bongs, counterculture T-shirts and the like to
an audience that either had no access to a head shop or was too
embarrassed to be seen going inside. By 1981 it was a Boulder
CO based spin-off of the Krupp Comic Works "conglomerate,"
operated by Denis Kitchen's one-time partner Tyler Lantzy and
his wife Terre.

The slick KMO catalogs frequently featured
custom color covers by underground cartoonists like Kitchen,
Peter Poplaski, Peter Loft, Howard Cruse, Bill Griffith, Justin
Green and John Pound. On the occasion of the company's
10th anniversary, three buttons were commissioned and a large
party was thrown in Boulder. KMO co-founder Kitchen designed
this button for "V.I.P"'s (all guests) attending the
bash. The white stripe was hand-lettered with each guest's name.
The image shows Krupp's "founder" Steve Krupp
displaying a rare smile and dancing with his seldom-seen wife
Veronica. A better version of the same image appeared
on Wisconsin-based Krupp Distribution's last magazine-format
catalog (No. 42) in 1982. The #88 buttons we have for sale have
blank name stripes or "specimen" written on the stripe.

Diameter 2.25 inches. $3.00

One note, for serious button collectors,
you may want to read the KSP
BUTTON TEXT which explains the numbering systems for
identifying the various buttons produced over the last 30 years,
or see the COMPLETE
KSP BUTTON LIST. The list is VERY long, so be patient
while it loads.

Krupp Mail Order began as a modest backroom
operation in Krupp's Strickly Uppa Crust retail store in Milwaukee
(see button #3A). It steadily grew as advertising in Kitchen
Sink's comix line, Rolling Stone,High Times and
other publications expanded the mailing list. KMO was essentially
a "head shop by mail," offering a full line of underground
comix, pipes, bongs, counterculture T-shirts and the like to
an audience that either had no access to a head shop or was too
embarrassed to be seen going inside. By 1981 it was a Boulder
CO based spin-off of the Krupp Comic Works "conglomerate,"
operated by Denis Kitchen's one-time partner Tyler Lantzy and
his wife Terre.

The slick KMO catalogs frequently featured
custom color covers by underground cartoonists like Kitchen,
Peter Poplaski, Peter Loft, Howard Cruse, Bill Griffith, Justin
Green and John Pound. On the occasion of the company's
10th anniversary, three buttons were commissioned and a large
party was thrown in Boulder. KMO co-founder Kitchen designed
this button for "V.I.P"'s (all guests) attending the
bash. The white stripe was hand-lettered with each guest's name.
The image shows Krupp's "founder" Steve Krupp
displaying a rare smile and dancing with his seldom-seen wife
Veronica. A better version of the same image appeared
on Wisconsin-based Krupp Distribution's last magazine-format
catalog (No. 42) in 1982. The #88 buttons we have for sale have
blank name stripes or "specimen" written on the stripe.

Diameter 2.25 inches. $3.00

One note, for serious button collectors,
you may want to read the KSP
BUTTON TEXT which explains the numbering systems for
identifying the various buttons produced over the last 30 years,
or see the COMPLETE
KSP BUTTON LIST. The list is VERY long, so be patient
while it loads.